Potential for lodgepole pine regeneration after mountain pine beetle attack in newly invaded Alberta stands

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 295, Issue , 2013, Pages 11-19

  McIntosh, Anne C S ^a   Macdonald, S Ellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Advance regeneration; Dendroctonus ponderosae; Germination; Pinus contorta; Recruitment; Seedbed type

Indexed keywords

ADVANCE REGENERATIONS; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; GERMINATION; PINUS CONTORTA; RECRUITMENT; SEEDBED TYPES;

MINERALS; SOFTWOODS; SOILS;

REFORESTATION;

BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DISTURBANCE; EPIDEMIC; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GERMINATION; LOGGING (TIMBER); MOSS; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING; SILVICULTURE; STAND STRUCTURE;

MINERALS; PINUS CONTORTA; REFORESTATION; SOFTWOODS; SOIL;

ALBERTA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 84874373367     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.12.050     Document Type: Article

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